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PZ 7715/39 'Middle East Intelligence Centre: Anglo Egyptian Censorship; information summaries' [6r] (11/38)
The record is made up of 1 file (17 folios). It was created in 27 Nov 1939-11 Dec 1939. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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consist of small comps of three or four aeroplanes. He then
details his pay and monthly allowances as follows:-
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ECONOMIC WARFARE.
15.
Cotton.
Germany is making increased, efforts to obtain cotton
supplies from Egypt. Various channels of communication are
utilised, one of the principal being through the firm of Francesco
Parisi in Trieste and Genoa, which firm is known to be rorwarding
goods to and from Germany 0 Other business concerns in Roumania,
Bulgaria, Switzerland and Hungary keep up a continuous postal and
telegraphic correspondence with various cotton exporters in rgyp
and the"Sudan. The Societe Hongro-Egyptienne pour la Commerce,
in Budapest, and their representatives in Egypt, Polnauer & c oy»?
are particularly under suspicion. It is noteworthy that M. Por-
nauor is Consul-General for Hungary in Alexandria and therefore
may bo considered to have certain facilities for avoiding censor
ship control.
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enquiries about cotton transactions are coming from Talinn. Iw is
probable that since Esthonia has been obliged to give way to u.o,b 0 H.
pressure Germany may bo seeking to develop that route as a means
of furnishing herself with some of hop necessary importo.
Referring to cotton, one of the members of the Pinto
cotton firm in Alexandria, writing from Lausanne on 19th October
to his brother in Egypt, says, ’’Italy will do everything possible
to remain out of tho conflict and thinks of doing business -not
only with France, but on a large scale 0 A grave fact, which is
not known, is that England has stopped four steamers (tv/o Italian;
at Gibraltar because they were carrying cotton. The cotton brokers
/are
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This summary, compiled by the Middle East Intelligence Centre, uses information received through Anglo-Egyptian censorship to provide a picture of various subjects relating to Nazi Germany including:
- Germany. Internal Conditions;
- conditions in neutral territories;
- military information;
- economic warfare;
- evasions of censorship;
- hostile Arab agents.
The information on each subject is largely drawn from intercepted correspondence, and excerpts are quoted or paraphrased throughout as evidence. It is noted at the beginning of the file that the information contained within aims to give an idea of what 'the people, as distinct from the government, are thinking'.
There are five attached appendices labelled A-E (folios 8-18). Appendices A, B, D and E are translations of intercepted letters which have previously been quoted. Appendix C is a report from the Deputy Chief Postal Censor which provides a general outline of European opinion on the Second World War based upon information read in intercepted correspondence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 19; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Pinto Cotton
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